Surprisingly incoherent and boring

It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

I went into this show reluctant, since I let the animation and new characters fool me. However, I went out of the show stunned. Beast Wars' writing was just plain amazing. Each character was written well (especially Dinobot) and to me, it was much more than a cartoon. I will point out the best character, Dinobot. Man oh man was he really well written, From the first episode to his death in Code of hero, he changed a lot. He went from chasing glory, to sacrificing himself for the good of others. The dialogue is great, the animation for that time is amazing and its overall a great show.

While I think animated is better, this is with out a doubt one of the greatest animated series ever. Beast Wars is a sequel to G1 following Optimus Primal, the son or grandson of Optimus Prime, as he leads a group of Maximals, Cheetor, Rattrap, Rhinox, Tigatron, Airazor, Silverbolt, Depth Charge, Tigerhawk, and my favorite character Dinobot. While the evil predacons are led by Megatron, not the same one of course, as he leads Terrersaur, Scorponok, Waspinator, Tarantulaus, Quickstrike, Inferno, Rampage, Ravage, Dinobot 2, and Blackarachnia, who turns good as the series progresses.The series had wonderful and in depth characters, recurring story arcs. Animation seems outdated yes, but still looks rather nice compared to other things Mainframe did.100/100

Now I remember this show a great deal because I remember I used to watch it. When I was a kid I used to LOVE this show. I would watch every episode. The characters were awesome. I was instantly hooked when I watched the first show. So when I saw this show was on the database I had to post in it. I used to collect all of the characters I could find. Apparently I was a rattrap and Optimus Prime fan. I would say this show is good now because this was one of the early transformer shows before the ones like Armoda and GX came out. I wish this show was on somewhere because a part of me inside still want to see an episode. I'm glad I got in touch with this show when I was young because I used to LOVE watching every episode and I couldn't be pulled away from the TV.

Beast wars was great, it created tension and what I liked about it was that it was targeted to more adult audiences which meant the story was richer and for the most part more well thought-out without most of the kid's cartoon like effects. It was an amazing series but it had its flaws, like the fact that in some episodes a predacon character would get blown to pieces and then reappear in the next episode totally recovered, whereas ,if the same thing were to happen to a maximal, they'd be gone permanently and it would be be shown as a serious and emotional event. Some episodes sheerly underpowered the maximals when inferior predacons would defeat them with ease...this was I guess to make the story more interesting by making showing the good guys as weak, but it's very inconsistent. An example of this is when Optimal Optimus and Cheetor are battling the normal transmetal Megatron they miss every shot on Megatron and he doesn't miss one and damages both maximals severely and gets away with the stasis pod. That's complete folly...Optimus was shown as having the power to defeat several predacons on his own in the previous episodes, especially when he was first conceived (when he temporarily took Prime's spark). You will also notice that when a maximal first appears from a stasis pod or when they've transformed to a new state(such as a transmetal, or transmetal 2) they are shown as incredibly powerful in that episode, and then in the latter episodes they're average fighters and shown fairly weak...predacons like Waspinator would defeat them...again very inconsistent. If this show had been a bit more serious and fixed their flaws, it would have been spectacular. Nonetheless, it was still the best animated show on TV and I still love it for what it is; dramatic, with an exciting and well thought-out plot that surprisingly fits in well with the original Transformers series), good animation/sound, voice acting and action.The thing that disappointed me was the fact Beast Machines was spawned from Beast Wars. Beast Wars was a gem, Beast Machines was in a word... terrible. It tried too hard to be emotional, it messed up the story by making some of the most noble maximals like Rhinox and Silverbolt evil. The animation got worse, the character models were worse and less powerful/interesting, Megatron was just some Godly evil character with no personality(mainly because they never really confronted him until the end), there was no good action and the ending was incredibly disappointing. I thought Cybertron would be a magnificent place and I was curious to see how they would show it since in Beast Wars we only saw glimpses of it. They totally ruined the show with Beast Machines.